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Precautions against Glanders.
General.
1. Glanders is a contagious disease, and may be communicated to a healthy animal by
contact with a diseased animal ; by infected water or food ; or by contact with
a manger, utensil, or other thing infected by a diseased animal.
2. Infected horses may give the disease to others long before they show any outward
signs of it themselves.
3. A glandered horse may sometimes be kept alive and even at work for a time,
during which, although no disease may be visible, it is a source of contagion.
4. The continuance of glanders is largely due to want of promptitude in detecting
disease, to delay in killing diseased horses, and in taking proper precautions
against infection. It is mainly by the vigilance of owners that the disease can
be stamped out.
5. Horses weeded out from studs should not be sold until it has been ascertained
that they are free from disease. The present practice of selling weeded-out
horses at auction, without such precaution, is a fruitful means of spreading
glanders.
6. Healthy studs may be kept free from glanders by the adoption of proper
precautions against infection.
Suppression of Glanders.
7. When glanders is already in a stud it can be got rid of only by killing all horses
infected, and by thoroughly cleansing and disinfecting the premises.
8. The presence of disease in a stud may be ascertained by frequent careful inspection.
The injection of mallein by a veterinary surgeon skilled in the work might be
adopted in doubtful cases.
Directly disease is detected the horse should, as far as practicable, be separated
from other horses ; notice should be given to the police ; any place where the